At Sotheby's will be an unknown painting by Rubens
A painting entitled "Portrait of a young woman" is estimated at 6 million pounds
Dec. 9 auction house Sotheby's will hold in London on the evening auction of old masters. Among the top lots included "Portrait of a Young Woman" brush Peter Paul Rubens (Peter Paul Rubens), a preliminary assessment of cloth is 6 million pounds. The work, written in 1606, more than 400 years, was outside the museum community and has never exhibited. Consequently, experts on the artist's do not know her. Despite its venerable age, the picture perfectly preserved.
On the canvas is a stamp indicating that it had carried out some time in the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts. In the XIX century, the product has acquired a British collector John Hemner (John Hamner). In 1930 the family decided to sell the last picture. The present owner, who wished to remain anonymous, bought the work of about 25 years ago.
girl in a portrait dressed in costume in the Spanish style. Perhaps the picture was painted in Italy, most of which was at that time was under the rule of the Spaniards. It is possible that the employer was the Duke of Mantua Vincenzo Gonzaga at the court of which the artist was a few years. There is also a version that Rubens created the painting is not in 1606-m, in 1603 or 1604, when he was on a diplomatic mission in Spain.
Among the other top lots Sotheby's - rare self-portrait of the famous Flemish Anthony van Dyck (Anthony van Dyck), estimated at 3 million pounds.
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